PMC’s Kondhwa Facility Upgraded

Pune:If you eat a pav bhaji at your local favourite joint and don’t find it palatable, take a sample of it to the food testing facility in Kondhwa to know if it’s consumable. Started by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) at Salunke Vihar in Kondhwa a year back, the lab so far had limited use. “It was designed primarily for testing meat at the Kondhwa slaughterhouse. Since it is well equipped, the lab can be used by common people. Anybody can go there with the food sample and ask for a test to be conducted. The lab will provide the details,” said PMC heal officer S T Pardeshi.

‘Pune, Mumbai, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Thane Should Go For 100% Metered Supply’

Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the Pune city was not using water in a ‘sensible’ way and that such ‘luxury’ cannot be afforded on the backdrop of the unprecedented drought situation in the state. “There is severe drought in the state. Crops are drying and dairy business is affected. It’s a big challenge to keep the cattle alive… If we are not able to sustain drinking water supply, we will face an unprecedented situation... Pune is not using water in a sensible way... we cannot afford this luxury when the drought is so bad,” the chief minister said.

Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the state government was preparing a new legislation to set rules for integrated urbanization.

“Today over 50% of the population in the state lives in urban areas and more villages are merging with urban areas. Urban governance has become challenge in Pune, Mumbai and other cities. With rising population, cities are planning metro, mono rails and the BRTS. There is a need to go for integrated urbanization and the government plans a new legislation to set new rules in this regard” Chavan said.

Irrigation Dept Might Not Sustain Existing Supply If Monsoon Is Delayed, Say Officials

Pune: In the face of an imminent drought, the state government has warned Puneites against “wasting and excess use” of drinking water for non-drinking purposes. Besides, it has categorically stated that no additional quota of water will be granted to the city. High-level meetings of civic officials and the state government representatives in the last two days concluded that it would be difficult for the state irrigation department to sustain existing supply if monsoon is delayed.

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) plans to carry out a survey of cell towers in the city to identify unauthorised towers.

The building permission department has submitted a proposal to the standing committee to appoint an agency for the survey. The proposal is expected to come up before the panel at it’s meeting on Tuesday. The civic administration had issued tenders for the survey last year. Three agencies had participated n the tender process, of which one agency has to be selected.

PUNE: Citizens of Pimpri-Chincwhad can expect to get 24x7 water supply within four years. The water supply project will be implemented in phases and the corporation is planning to get funds from the central government under the JNNURM, municipal commissioner ShrikarPardeshi said on Thursday.

Speaking at a two-day workshop on 24x7 water supply for Pimpri-Chincwhad, Pardeshi said the corporation has implemented a pilot project for 24x7 water supply at Yamunanagar in Nigdi. "We have achieved 80% success. We will replicate the pilot project at Premlok Park in Chinchwad and in the remaining two zones of the corporation."

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation has allocated Rs 15.5 crore for metro, monorail and high capacity mass transit route (HCMTR) projects in the draft budget for 2013-2014.

The Planning Commission has suggested that the Railways should begin its high-speed rail (HSR) corridor project with the Delhi-Agra section rather than insisting on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor.

In a recent note to a steering group, the Commission has asked the Railways to take up the Delhi-Agra section of the 991 km-long Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi corridor, as it would be able to execute the project on a stretch that is barely 200 km as a demonstrative exercise and before developing other corridors.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can now push its river restoration as well as construction and development of heritage sites along the Mula-Mutha river projects to completion at the earliest.

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